The Happening

the commercial really made the movie way better then it was, it was really lame. mark wahlberg was horribly cast, and the lead chick had something wrong with her damn eyes. and there was no fucking twist, i was expecting at least mark to turn into a damn sunflower or something. sorry m night shimsham but you failed
 
just saw that. I downloaded it because everybody said and wrote how bad is that movie. bad? it's not a right expression. it is a typical b-movie in the early seventies style: the stupid story, the characters, the dialogues, the music, the cuts, everything. and if i can accept that, i think that movie is good.
but what was shyamalahalaman's goal with this film? did he want to make a "good bad" movie??
i don't know yet if i like this movie or not :) but it is definetely better than lady in water was, it was a horrible bad shit awful movie.
and if shymamalhamaan wanted to make a parody or a black horror comedy or something like this, hm... it is a weak film.
did anybody see black sheep? it IS an excellent and funny black horror parody.
 
Yeah why didnt shyalamnan just turn down the suck and turn up the awesome when he was making this movie?


Maybe I'm not critical enough but I'm impressed by every second that ticks by during a movie when the actors don't look into the cameras.
 
That's really a shame that the movie wasn't any good. I had such high hopes for Shyamamalamanan as being one of the new school purveyors of mind-fuck movies that we so desperately need. Some of the camera shots in Signs and even The Village were brilliant and refreshing, and I thought that if he just kept going down that same rabbit hole, he'd really unearth something truly great.

There has been such a gap in interesting, yet widely-distributed movies in the Kubrick, Hitchcock, Lynch style, and I thought M. Night could eventually fill it. Yes, it's unfair that the media imprinted him as the "some crazy twist at the end!" guy, as that's not entirely his game, but he still hasn't come out of his little shell and created something truly timeless. I still haven't lost all hope, but my eyes have definitely shifted elsewhere (I'd say Guillermo del Toro, but he looks to be falling into a trap himself)
 
Del Toro's career depends on how the Hobbit movies turn out.

I'd say Cuaron and Nolan are the two best mainstream directors working at the moment. It's occasionally folly to like older movies purely because they are older, but Kubrick and Hitchcock have nevr been matched. I can't see it happening either.
 
Hitchcock never made a bad movie. Same goes for Kubrick. That's less than half the real quality lurking in movies from the 40s until the 70s.
 
I go to the Stanford Theater regularly. It's a renovated old theater from the 1920's, complete with Wurlitzer Organ and intermissions. They play old classics and will sometimes run Hitchcock festivals and the like. Really a different sort of moviegoing experience.
 
ShadowsWithin said:
i don't get peoples obsession with older movies, i usually find them boring and really cheesy, especially the acting.
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i used to feel this way when i was younger. i also used to hate metal that didnt have pristine production. but as i grew a little older i realized that the grit and non sterilized-perfection gives media a certain charm.
 
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